Shelley Songy

What do you do when standing in front of a room full of students who have suddenly surpassed your knowledge level as a teacher with 45 minutes of class time left? That was the situation I found myself in one day last year when teaching a unit on the basics of HTML for a pilot course on “Exploring Computer Science,” as part of Mississippi’s CS4MS initiative, a program aimed at exposing all students in our state to computer science.

Hover over a state to see an article written by an author from that state If you're in education, chances are you've heard the term "personalized learning." But what does that phrase mean? What does "personalized learning" look like from coast to coast, classroom to classroom? For the last few years, we’ve collected stories written by educators—edtech coordinators, librarians, superintendents and others—from all fifty states and the District of Columbia.

What do students need to be successful? Why not ask them directly?